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and its operation beneficial. Rather would I cherish it for its antiquity, and reverence it for its connection with our forefathers. J. K. K. April 14, 1826.

upon God in public and private. If you are a servant, make a conscience of observing the Sabbath as much as you can, and God will bless your good intentions. Perhaps this may be thought severe by pleasure-takers; REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY but if you had any love for your souls, TO KEEP IT HOLY. you would not think so. If you would It is a melancholy consideration, go to see a relation or friend, and that the observance of the Lord's Day spend your time in edifying converor Sunday, is almost neglected by sation, or walk in the fields and comrich and poor, young and old, through-mune with your own heart some little out London, as well as over the whole part of the day, the case would be kingdom; and even those who pay otherwise; but if people pay and resome regard to it, seldom go to pub-ceive visits to indulge their appetites, lic worship more than once, and that pamper their bodies, or pass away an more from custom and reputation, idle hour, they render their minds than concern for their eternal welfare; unfit for prayer and attention to God's then they usually spend the remainder word and ministers. If they walk of the day in visiting and trifling con- out to be seen and admired, to visit versation, in intemperance and luxury. ale-houses, which swarm on Sundays, But stop, I pray you, and reflector for any vain amusement, it is plain that the design of setting apart one they are lovers of pleasure more than day in seven is, that you may have lovers of God, and consequently are more leisure to apply to God, as at enmity with him, and hewith them. sinners, for pardon and forgiveness, for grace and strength, and every blessing. But how can you hope or expect God's mercy and blessing, if you openly profane his Sabbaths? Many people, alas! are so infatuated and wicked as to spend the whole or great part of the day in business or pleasure, in riding out, in visiting their neighbours, in sitting at public-houses, or in buying and selling, against all laws human and divine. How often do we read in This is a fresh message the papers of boats oversetting, of from God, that you should repent and people in liquor falling off their horses, be converted, that your sins may be and being killed on the spot while blotted out. Dare no longer to hazard taking pleasure on a Sunday? Reader, the state of your soul, but wrestle has the Sabbath been profaned by with God in public and private prayer, you, and are you still alive? Has till the merits of Christ are applied to not God yet stopped you by an un-you by faith, and a change wrought timely death? Be thankful for this in your heart and life; and then, inexceeding mercy, and immediately stead of spending your Sabbaths in resolve never more to trifle away this idleness and pleasure, you will find precious day, but improve every hour delight in devoting them to God. If to make provision for eternity. If you are by any means hindered from your time is spent the rest of the attending public worship, be more in week in hard labour for yourself and private with God, and he will abunfamily, which will shortly perish, dantly bless you. For he doth not surely you have need to spend one despise your sincere though but faint day for the benefit of your soul, which beginnings, but waiteth to be gracious will never die. If you have servants to the fallen sons of men, that they and children, you are bound to instruct should not perish, but have everlast→ them, and allow them time to wait ing life.

If you thus trifle away your Sabbaths, and have little or no concern for your souls, whatever you do, and wherever you go, you are in danger of death and eternal misery. Oh, wait upon God, and begin, if you have not begun, to make sure of heaven; apply to God for mercy and forgiveness. Life is uncertain; tomorrow may be too late; before that time you may be summoned away unprepared to an eternity of misery and woe.

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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Sermon by DR. CHALMERS, at the High Church, Edinburgh, March 5, 1826.

A lady residing in Edinburgh, has sunk two hundred pounds, the interest of which is to be given to some

ing an annual sermon against cruelty to animals. We subjoin a short account of the first discourse that has been preached on that subject, in consequence of this benevolent appropriation, by the celebrated Dr. Chalmers. His text was taken from Proverbs, xii. 10-" A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast."

(From Gurney's Essays on Christianity). When we reflect, with any degree of care, on the declarations of Scripture, we can scarcely fail to be astonished, that any persons who regard the Scriptures as divine, and who pretend to the character of fair inter-distinguished clergyman for preachpreters of the sacred volume, should deny to the adversary of souls a personal existence, or should venture to insinuate, that the Satan of the Old and New Testaments is nothing more than a personification of evil-the vain and unsubstantial creature of poetry, allegory, and fiction. It ought ever to be remembered, that the Holy Spirit can neither err nor feign; and although there is to be found in the Bible much poetry, and something, perhaps, of allegory, yet, as a guide to practice and to doctrine, it can be regarded only as a code of principles, and a record of realities.

To imagine that he who reasoned with Eve, and persuaded her to sin; who appeared with the sons of God before the throne of heaven, after walking to and fro on the earth, and obtained permission to try the faith of Job; who tempted Jesus, assailed him with subtle arguments, and said to him, "All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship ME;" who taught Judas to betray his master; who sent the thorn in the flesh to buffet the apostle Paul; who transforms himself into an angel of light; who is expressly declared by our Lord to be a murderer, a liar, and the father of lies; who accuses the brethren day and night before the throne of God; to imagine that such an one is not a person, and has never existed at all, is to set at nought the plainest testimonies of Scripture, and to involve ourselves in a heedless, hopeless, nugatory pyrrhonism.

It must surely be one of the favourite devices of the prince of darkness, to persuade us that he has no existence; for if he has no existence, there can be no occasion to "resist" him; no need for us to stand on our guard, that we may not fall into the snares which he lays around us.

The discourse was distinguished for that powerful eloquence and impressive manner which characterize the composition and the style of the Rev. Doctor, and was listened to with breathless attention by a most crowded audience. He took a luminous and comprehensive view of his subject, reprobated the cruelty to which various animals are subjected, to pamper the appetite of the epicure and the sensualist; condemned the sports of the field and of the turf, as being the means of blunting that sense of feeling which man should possess to animals subject to his power; and contrasted the cruelty which was exercised by man on the inferior animals, to the beneficence and goodness which mark the charac ter of the Divine Being to the human race.

So early as nine o'clock people began to collect round the doors, and at half past ten, when they were opened, the crowd was immense, and the rush very great. The passages were so crowded, that it was with considerable difficulty the judges and magistrates got into their seats.

GOOD FRIDAY IN JERUSALEM.

(From Travels in the Holy Land, by

WILLIAM RAE WILSON.)

Among the religous ceremonies in the capital of Judea, may be men tioned the following, which is marked with extraordinary devotional fervor.

a discourse on the character of the SAVIOUR. "What, my brethren," said he," are the views which you form of the character of JESUS? You will answer, perhaps, that he was a man of singular benevolence. You will tell me that he proved this to be his character by the nature of the miracles which he wrought. All these, you will say, were kind in the extreme. He created bread to feed thousands who were ready to perish. He raised to life the son of a poor woman who was a widow, and to whom his labours were necessary for her support in old age. Are these, then, your only views of the SAVIOUR? I will tell you, they are lame. When JESUS came into the world, he threw his blanket around him, but THE GOD was within," This I had from MR. KIRKLAND himself.-DWIGHT'S TRAVELS, Vol. iv. pp. 195, 196].

In the evening of Good Friday, or [ and reluctantly consented. After a dark night, as it is denominated few words of introduction, he began by the monks, they assemble in a body, when a sermon is delivered, during which every light is extinguished, in order to create a more deep impression on the mind in reference to that supernatural darkness that overspread the earth. A procession afterwards commences, when each person carries in his hand a lighted taper. A crucifix is borne before them, with an image of the Saviour as large as life, attached to it, representing him in the act of hanging on the cross, with nails in the hands, a crown of thorns on the head, and the body is marked with blood! After proceeding to those parts of the church which have been consecrated to some particular acts performed in them relative to the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and adorned with ornaments; the procession arrives at Mount Calvary, which, it will be observed, the church incloses, and it is ascended by the monks without their shoes. The cross is here erected, when a sermon is delivered on the crucifixion, and the benefits resulting from it to mankind, and this is followed by a hymn. After this, two persons, representing Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, approach the place with great solemnity, and draw the nails, and take down the effigy, which is so contrived, that the limbs are flexible as if it were a real body. This is laid in a sheet, and taken to a particular spot, where it is anointed with spices. Another hymn is chaunted, after which a funeral sermon is delivered, and this ceremony terminates by depositing the body in the sepulchre.

RELIGION IN AMERICA.

A series of lectures, grounded on Paley's Natural Theology, and Chalmers's Astronomical Sermons, is now delivering in the Masonic Hall, at Philadelphia, on the afternoons of Mondays and Thursdays at four o'clock. The first part in the series is on the subject of astronomy, accompanying an outline of that science: other branches are to follow. This has been commenced without public notice, but the large and highly respectable class almost entirely fills the room. It augurs well, when a disposition to mark the wisdom, power, and goodness of our Creator, as displayed in his works, increases. The more the mind is led to contemplate "Him by whom all things were made," the more the heart is improved. We look upwards in adoration, and While MR. KIRKLAND was a mis- learn to be humble. A considerable sionary to the Oneidas, being unwell, sum has been raised by means of this he was unable to preach on the after-course to promote the spread of the noon of a certain Sabbath, and told good PETER, one of the head men of the Oneidas, that he must address the congregation. PETER modestly

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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1826.

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"THE EPIPHANY” OF THE ANTE-DILUVIANS; OR, REDEMPTION TYPICALLY SEEN AT THE GATE OF PARADISE:

A Sermon,

PREACHED AT

THE EPISCOPAL JEWS CHAPEL, BETHNAL GREEN,

BY THE

REV. W. B. WILLIAMS, M.A.

MONDAY EVENING LECTURER OF ST. ANTHOLINE'S CHURCH; THURSDAY MORNING LECTURER AT ST. PETER'S, CORNHILL; AND MINISTER OF RAM'S CHAPEL, HOMERTON.

Text, Genesis, iii. 24.-So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Or opinions supposed by many to be of minor consequence, because not at once denying the truth, or affecting the vitals of Christianity, but which in their result have done no small injury to the sacred cause, there is, perhaps, scarcely one more specious, and consequently more popular than the supposing the Old and the New Testament to be two separate and detached systems; not, indeed, opposed or contradictory to each other, but, like the greater and lesser lights of the firmament, always in happy union, yet essentially differing, and eternally distinct. In other words, that Moses and Christ, though both accredited teachers, taught not the same method of acceptance with Jehovah; and that the gospel revealed a scheme and plan of salvation altogether new; as if it unveiled a motive, or revealed a purpose, or began a strain, or disclosed a vision, or dwelt upon a theme, which VOL. VI.

heretofore had never charmed the ear, nor pleased the sight, nor filled the mind, nor warmed the heart, nor raised the hope, nor tuned the praise of either men or angels.

But it is not so; the truth is, that long before the giving of the law, and ever since God had a church on earth, it has had ONE only sovereign head; whatever "differences of administration," it has always been under “the same Lord; and the "diversities of operations" have originated from "the same spirit;" and CHRIST hath been ever the expounder of its doctrines, the object of its faith, the ground of its hope, and the theme of its rejoicing. Whatever fuller discoveries he might, and certainly did make of himself, at one period than another; and whatever disclosure to particular persons as to his future purposes, his mysterious providences, or his merciful designs; all proceed upon an arranged plan; all are parts of the same edifice, and "known unto himself," as the great architect, "from the foundation of the world;" nor was the whole "concealed from his servants;" rather, on its most essen◄

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